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"Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes."

John Stuart Mill

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Still other respected writes, such as Rufus Miles Jr. and Stanford Univerity's Barton Bernstein, have effectively refuted Truman's oft-repeated argument about the number of American lives saved by the bomb. Citing the most recently de-classified materials, Bernstein could not find a worst-case prediction of lives lost higher than 46,000-even if an invasion had been mounted, which, as noted, was deemed highly unlikely by July 1945. Most estimates went no higher than 20,000 combat deaths. "The myth of the 500,000 American lives saved", Bernstein concludes, "thus seems to have no bases in fact."

The Nation, May 10, 1993, pg. 641.

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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction


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Douglas Adams

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Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Woody Allen (1935 - )

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“One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”



W. E. B. Du Bois

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"What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that."

George Bernard Shaw

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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."


George Bernard Shaw

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"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."

-Anatole France

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"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

William Shakespeare